Derrick Poems

Premium MemberA Neighbourhood At The Bottom Of The Sea

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There is a mixed shoal of marine life creatures
Who live in a neighbourhood at the bottom of the sea
A mixed and varied group 
Living together cohesively and in harmony 

Timmy Tuna and Sally ...
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Categories: derrick, fun, humor, humorous, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDANGERS OF BEING AN FBI INFORMANT

...AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI 1988 TO 1989 OPERATION INTO CORRUPT OFFICERS SELLING DRUGS CATRINA BELLS CLIFFORD JONES DRUG CARTEL SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS NEEDE...
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Categories: derrick, allah,
Form: Naat


Premium MemberCHRISTMAS ROMANCE

...It was the Eve before Christmas, every tree covered in snow,
Bonnie was walking Plato her poodle, conscious to keep to the road,
As she nonchalantly walked, she thought of Derrick her Danish beau,
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Categories: derrick, christmas, love,
Form: Rhyme

Guttural Voice For the Cultural

...Whenever programs are cultural,
Zatu's thin voice richly cultural,
All his speech pauses the junctural:
Not what hearers might term The Natural...

But should it not be unnatural:
Sessions with...
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Categories: derrick, god, imagination, religion, words,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUnique

...*Image of Fashions by EL.

Unique

I heard, exaggerations, so to speak,
Of where in the world their clothes ware is chic,
In India it's awesome said a Sikh,
Free-flowing sari so gr...
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Categories: derrick, change, fashion, future,
Form: Monorhyme


Premium MemberClerihew Greaves

...Derrick Greaves once visited Tel Aviv
in the desert found a vivid motif
Creating inspiration so fine
into unique silhouette,colour & line...
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Categories: derrick, art, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

Achanda

...ACHANDA

Achanda  was a no-nonsense lass
Nurtured from a well meaning home
Went to a well established school
Harvested the good grades 
And went for further education
And finally passed all th...
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Categories: derrick, africa, april, august, beauty,
Form: Blank verse

Oodles of Google Doodles

...Oodles Of Google Doodles...

visually delicious as  germane strudels
the following cooked years ago
courtesy me noggin awash with noodles.

Yours truly crafted remaining poem
around 27th July ...
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Categories: derrick, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSister Bree Was Shocked

...Sister Bree got engaged on the balcony that day.
Bright was shocked, for he was the one who “got away”.
She thought he would come to his senses finally.
In her heart, Derrick B. Works suited her t...
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Categories: derrick, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberToilet Paper

...The sale of toilet paper during the pandemic
In the billions, we panicked and became schizophrenic
Could read the evening news
Articles could make us go pew
Needed to be removed from the ...
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Categories: derrick, giggle,
Form: Limerick

I Choose You

...For Bryan, Chelbe, & Derrick 

Heart of my heart 
Skin of my skin 
Blood of my blood 
I  Choose You.

Without Excuses
I Choose You. 
Within, Without, 
and With no need for Reason. 
I Choos...
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Categories: derrick, children, parents,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberForty Five Pound Mood Changer

...He wandered into the kitchen in a grumpy mood, so blue
Which lasted two seconds when he saw the friendly hue
Of twenty-one month old Derrick and grinning doggie too
No one could stay grouchy looki...
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Categories: derrick, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRape Culture

...Another sleepless night 
spent avoiding 
the subject.

In a tantric state 
our oceans are diesel, 
are always burning 

under bursting skylines 
scraping the gills of a bloated fish, 
from ...
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Categories: derrick, culture, fire, society,
Form: Free verse

Pendle's Unseen War

...Tap tap  boom… sheep scattered like shrapnel
Brian Dunn’s instant memorial smoke rose
from his peaty wet death hole, roots
lumps of peat and ling fell like black roses over his body
and the blood...
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Categories: derrick, death, horror, loss, world
Form: Prose Poetry

The Defiling General

...The earth has been drowned by the fiend 
Deprived from its undergrowth 
Stripped from the edible seed 
Killed to the last in loath 
By the toll of the sully

Millions have tasted the loganberry...
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Categories: derrick, future, pollution,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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